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that the claim of the Bureau thereto be released and that said company be permitted to retain and enjoy the above mentioned buildings without any interference from the Agents of the Bureau.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt,
(Sd) Edward Wright
Rec & Dist Officer

The above recommendation is hereby approved, and the Agents of this Bureau will not interfere in any way with the enjoyment and use of the within mentioned buildings by the Tallassee Manufacturing Co.

(Sd) Wager Swayne
Bvt Maj Genl
and Asst Commissioner


Office Asst Comsr
Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Montg'y Feb 3rd 1866

Mr G.B. Ellis
Coosa. Co. Ala.

Sir;
Lucy a Freedwoman states in this office that you have possession of her grandchild, that you decline giving it up to her.
You have no right to prevent the girl Lucy assuming charge of the child.
[[strikethrough]] If the assumed parents or grandparents [[/strikethrough]]
You have no right to raise the question as to the legitimacy of the child.
If the assumed parents or grandparents have have recognized or considered as such they

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have the right to take charge of it. You will please deliver up the child to the girl Lucy.
By order of 
Bvrt Maj Gen Wager Swayne
A.A.G.


Officer Asst Coms'r
B.R.F & A.L.
Mont. Ala.  Feby 5th 1866

Mr. Y.M. Rabb.
Evergreen, Ala.

Contracts without Revenue Stamps thereon are invalid.  
You are authorized and directed to call on the parties, whose contracts were approved by Capt Davis and are remaining unstamped, to appear before you and have their contracts stamped according to law.
The fee, authorized in General Orders No 14 from this office, will be collected by you where not already paid.
By order of
Bvt Maj Gen Wager Swayne
A.A.G.


Office Asst Coms'r
B.R.F. & A.L.
Montgomery, Ala.  Feb 5th 1866 

Hon Hugh McCulloch
Secty of the Treasury
Washington, D.C.

Sir;
I have been requested by my friend, Hon Wm Garrett, Secretary of State under the Provisional

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